ASCII is a 7 bit character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal; it is an acronym of 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'. There are 128 ASCII characters in the entire set, which was published in 1968 by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI).
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Is there a command-line program that can output ascii art as an image?
Is there a command-line program that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png?
To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the image below into ...
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Transfering a file with cat changes it
I am trying to transfer some video from a embedded linux + camera to my computer through an USB cable. What I am doing is cat file > /dev/ttyGS0 on the card side and cat /dev/ttyACM0 > file on ...
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ASCII number showed instead of letters after using file backup manager
I used File Backup Manager to back up files but now I can't restore files because of this error:
Mon Jan 28 17:32:39 2013: Starting restore operation from '/media/andy/A280-E3FF/hudba'
Mon Jan 28 ...
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Tried to use deja-dup for backup, but it give the following error(UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii')
Is there a way to find the filenames that is causing this error?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1404, in
with_tempdir(main)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", ...
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How can I have the terminal starting with ascii banner?
How can I have my terminal in ubuntu starting with an ascii banner every time from default?
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Alt + ASCII code like in Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ways to enter special characters? Is Alt+Numpad possible?
Is there a way to do Alt+ASCII code for typing ASCII code in Ubuntu like one can do in Windows? If so, then how ...
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Problem with German letters like ä, ö, ü when using UbuntuOne [closed]
When I try to open UbuntuOne at my Windows 7 PC I get this Message:
Ubuntu One experienced an error
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Sorry, an error has occurred and Ubuntu One needs to close.
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How can I type ASCII characters like alt+numpad in Windows?
On Windows, the key combination alt+255 creates a blank space. How can I achieve this on Ubuntu?
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Text inside files has squares with numbers in it
Some text files I come across, have little squares with numbers in them (in place of certain characters). I am unable to copy and paste these in Ubuntu, but may search and replace in gedit each ...
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What are some good ASCII art generators?
I have tried figlet but it's not much good. Are there any other ASCII editors?
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gedit can't recognize character encoding, but gvim can
I have a lot of plain text files which come from a Windows environment.
Many of them use a whacky default Windows code-page, which is neither ASCII (7 bits) nor UTF-8.
gvim has no problem opening ...
